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Quick Tip: How To Make A Linen Texture In Photoshop

Niki Brown — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:49:01 +0000

In this quick tip I show you how to make a hatched linen texture that is making its rounds through the interwebs. Hatched texture is the new filter>add noise!

Pagebreak Episode 2 + Snippets!

Niki Brown — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:54:44 +0000

Hey guys! This week (or past week or so) Liz and I released the 2nd episode of the Pagebreak Podcast! Our book this month was Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by by Hugh MacLeod.

You can listen to the show over at Pagebreakpodcast.com, but we’d love for everyone to subscribe to the show in iTunes! Don’t forget to leave feedback and thanks for listening!

We also launched a new sort of ‘mini’ version of Pagbreak called ‘snippets’. Snippets are 5-10 minute discussions on awesome blog posts we find between recording the monthly podcast. So if you’ve read an awesome blog post send it our way by leaving a comment or sending us an email at listen [at] pagebreakpodcast dot com.

If you want to join us for the next podcast and read along our book this month is Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. So buy the book and tune in to the next podcast!

Listen To The Pagebreak Podcast!

Niki Brown — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:23:33 +0000

So the wait is finally over, Liz and I have been scheming about this for a long time now and then over the last couple weeks pulled it all off…

PageBreak is a design, business and marketing-themed book club and podcast, started by Liz Andrade and Niki Brown. The main goal of the club is to build a strong online community of designers, developers, freelancer (like ourselves) and to discuss and enjoy books about the stuff we love to do!

We’re starting out with the plan to pick a new book and record a show at the end of each month, so if you have a suggestion we’d love to hear them! You can subscribe to the show via iTunes or stream the show at pagebreakpodcast.com

Book #1? Rework by 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Make it through the show (or download it and skip to the end) to find out what we’ll be reading for September, maybe you’d like to read along? If you’ve read Rework and you want to discuss it with me and Niki or other listeners of the show – head over to the GoodReads PageBreak group!

TweetDeck For iPhone… FTW!!!

Niki Brown — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:28:19 +0000

I downloaded TweetDeck on my iPod Touch and gave it a spin. Leave a comment and let me know what you think of tweetdeck!

Link Drop: Great Stuff Elsewhere

Niki Brown — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:39:27 +0000

Six Ways to Style Blockquotes (CSS Newbie)

50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration (Fuel+Your Creativity)

Great post featuring my Tiny Mouse Design logo!

Excel Drawings (Today and Tomorow)

A friend sent this into me after being distracted by drawing in excel.

Shirts for Coders

I especialy like the “give me a fucking
” shirt

(via CSS-Tricks)

Designing for WordPress (CSS-Tricks)

Chris has been putting out wonderful series of screencasts showing you how to build a website in wordpress – pretty freaking sweet! Check out the rest of his site as well – very useful resource if you are a nerd like me!

Podcast: Rookie Designer

Niki Brown — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:42:19 +0000

I’m a big fan of design related podcasts. I recently stumbled upon this one: Rookie Designer. Basically its a bi-weekly podcast with tips and tricks for graphic designers and web designers. Its been around for a while (since 2005) so they have a good archive of shows. Despite the name, its for all people not just rookies!